Departmental Archives - RIMURE
Departmental Archives of Vienne, Creuse and Vosges
France ✧ 2025-2026
Corpus
Artificial intelligence technologies used
- OCR pour documents historiques
- analyse de mise en page
- extraction d’entités
- indexation et structuration de données
Objectives of the Network for Shared Indexing of Registration Directories (RIMURE)
Implementation of a shared project for the processing of department archives presenting the same standardized format.
Extraction of nominative information on declarants from the registers of the Registration offices of the departments of Vosges, Creuse and Vienne.
Processing workflow
- Clustering of the corpus to group together different structures
- Creation of annotated training datasets by a service provider
- Training a segmentation model
- Training a model for extracting tabular information
- CSV export
What are the registers of the Registration Offices?
The registers of the Registration Offices were used to formalize a wide range of civil and notarial acts by recording them with the tax authorities.
They included marriage contracts, wills, and donations, as well as property sales, leases, and declarations of succession. Each entry generally recorded the identities of the parties involved, the date and nature of the act, the value of the property or rights concerned, and the duties paid to the administration.
The purpose was not limited to tax collection. Registration conferred a legally recognized date on the act and ensured its official publicity, thereby strengthening the legal security of transactions. For this reason, these records have become valuable sources for studying the transmission of property and genealogy.
Image: Departmental Archives of Vienne. Credits: Espace3 Architecture